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Introduction : The Renaissance / Orville Vernon Burton -- Technological revolutions I have known / Edward L. Ayers -- Rewiring the history and social studies classroom : needs, frameworks, dangers, and proposals / Randy Bass and Roy Rosenzweig -- Validity of web-based surveys : explorations with data from 2,382 teenagers / William Sims Bainbridge -- Computer environments for content analysis : reconceptualizing the roles of humans and computers / William Evans -- Electronic texts in the historical profession : perspectives from across the scholarly spectrum / Wendy Plotkin -- Social activism through computer networks / Daniel J. Myers -- Creating cybertrust : illustrations and guidelines / H. Jeanie Taylor and Cheris Kramarae -- Electronic networks for international research collaboration : implications for intellectual property protection in the early twenty-first century / Carole Ganz-Brown

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Note to the Reader -- Introduction -- 1. The Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the Road to Civil War -- 2. A New Birth of Freedom -- 3. The Supreme Court in Reconstruction -- 4. The Supreme Court and the Jim Crow Counterrevolution -- 5. Beginning the Long, Slow Turnaround -- 6. Breaking New Ground -- 7. The End of Separate but Equal -- 8. Opposing Forces: Massive Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement -- 9. A New Birth of Freedom, Again -- 10. Change in the Court -- 11. The War of Words: "Purpose" and "Effect" -- 12. Affirmative Action: Color Blind or Color Conscious -- 13. The Color of Criminal Justice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration Credits -- Index of Cases -- General Index.

Abstract: This article is a brief history of the struggle for Black voting rights and against determined opposition in Georgia since the end of the Civil War. After a brief period during Reconstruction when there was significant Black voting and Black representation in the Georgia legislature, Black people were systematically denied both voting rights and representation in the state of Georgia. After 1944, when the US Supreme Court ruled against the all-white primary, and especially after 1965, with the passage of the Voting Rights Act, white Georgia politicians tried any number of strategies to limit minority voting strength, from efforts to limit Black registration, to manipulating election districts and voting rules to keep African Americans from winning elective office. These efforts continued, and in many ways increased after the Supreme Court in 2013 ended the preclearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act. Nonetheless, the increasing demographic power of metro Atlanta, with its large minority population, was a key in 2020 to the narrow victory of Joseph Biden in the presidential race in Georgia, and the election of two liberal Democratic US Senators, including the first African American and Jew elected in the state's history.

Humor and statesmanship : the instructive case of Abraham Lincoln / Richard Carwardine -- The second founding : how the Civil War and reconstruction remade the Constitution / Eric Foner -- Lincoln, Du Bois's "General strike," and the making of the American working class / Lawrence T. McDonnell -- Abraham Lincoln's unfinished work and the South's long self-reconstruction / J. William Harris -- The problem of enforcement : the Republican struggle to protect voting rights in peacetime / Gregory P. Downs -- Breaking new ground : African American landowners and the pursuit of the American dream / Adrienne Petty and Mark Schultz -- Our textbooks and monuments have flattened Lincoln, just when we need him the most / James W. Loewen -- Looking at Lincoln from the effigy mound / Stephen Kantrowitz -- The unfinished work of Clemson University : full recognition for Black citizens in its history / Rhondda Robinson Thomas -- Evangelicals, race, and reform : from the age of Lincoln to the Second Reconstruction / Randall J. Stephens -- Jackie Robinson and the fight for effective Black citizenship; or, how integration reached second base / Peter Eisenstadt -- Lincoln and the two Reconstructions : the unfinished work of American equality / Jerald Podair -- From Ken Burns's The Civil War to history's ancient aliens : Lincoln's unfinished work on cable television / Joshua Casmir Catalano and Briana Pocratsky -- Voting rights and economics in the American South / Gavin Wright -- Falling in love with Lincoln and coming to America / Ayala Emmett.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- I The Unfinished Work of Lincoln in Civil War, Reconstruction, and Post-Reconstruction America -- Humor and Statesmanship: The Instructive Case of Abraham Lincoln -- The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution -- Lincoln, Du Bois's "General Strike," and the Making of the American Working Class -- Abraham Lincoln's Unfinished Work and the South's Long Self-Reconstruction -- The Problem of Enforcement: The Republican Struggle to Protect Voting Rights in Peacetime -- Breaking New Ground: African American Landowners and the Pursuit of the American Dream -- II. The Unfinished Work of Lincoln in American History and the Struggle for Democratic Inclusion -- Our Textbooks and Monuments Have Flattened Lincoln, Just When We Need Him the Most -- Looking at Lincoln from the Effigy Mound -- The Unfinished Work of Clemson University: Full Recognition for Black Citizens in Its History -- Evangelicals, Race, and Reform: From the Age of Lincoln to the Second Reconstruction -- Jackie Robinson and the Fight for Effective Black Citizenship -- or, How Integration Reached Second Base -- Lincoln and the Two Reconstructions: The Unfinished Work of American Equality -- From Ken Burns's The Civil War to History's Ancient Aliens: Lincoln's Unfinished Work on Cable Television -- Voting Rights and Economics in the American South -- Afterword -- Falling in Love with Lincoln and Coming to America -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index.